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South African President Thabo Mbeki underwent medical tests at a hospital this week after suffering a bout of the flu, but he is in good health and expected to return to work shortly, officials said. Mbeki (64) cancelled an appearance in Parliament in Cape Town on Wednesday after complaining of flu-like symptoms.
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/ 1 September 2006
Intel, the world’s leading computer chip maker which employs 99 000 people worldwide, could soon slash up to 20 000 jobs, a report said on Friday. The layoffs could come as early as next week, when Intel has scheduled an internal announcement, The Wall Street Journal said quoting analysts and former employees of the company.
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/ 1 September 2006
A vicious cycle of drought and floods is continuing to bring death and misery to millions of impoverished people across East Africa, the United Nations said on Friday. After months of a scorching killer drought that threatened more than 11-million mainly rural peasants and pastoralists with starvation, heavy rains have pounded the region, causing deadly flash floods in six countries, it said.
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/ 1 September 2006
The JSE was firmer in noon trade on Friday, boosted by rand weakness and relatively strong commodities. However, dealers believed the bourse’s strength was overdone and that it was priced for a correction. By 12.06pm, the all-share and all-share industrial indices added 0,86% and 0,71% respectively.
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/ 1 September 2006
Nigerian authorities on Friday reported a sharp rise in the number of polio cases in Africa’s most populous country over recent months, despite a government immunisation drive. A total of 784 cases of the disease were registered in 17 states at the end of July, the National Programme on Immunisation said.
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/ 1 September 2006
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has offered his country’s oil expertise to Angola, sub-Saharan Africa’s number two crude producer, in a strategy to boost ties with what he calls "Mother Africa" and counter United States influence there. "It’s absolutely a lie that the destiny of the world has to be signed off by Washington," he said in a speech at the presidential palace in Luanda.
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/ 1 September 2006
The retail price of all grades of petrol will decline by 36 cents per litre from September 6, the Department of Minerals and Energy Affiars said on Friday. The wholesale price of diesel 0,05% sulphur and 0,005% sulphur will fall by 25c/l and 29c/l respectively on the same date.
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/ 1 September 2006
South African newlyweds Richard and Christine Wyngaard could have opted to honeymoon in the exotic Seychelles or romantic Italy. Instead, they chose Kenya — their first African trip north of their own border. Twelve years after the fall of apartheid ended international isolation, people like the Wyngaards are opting to explore their own continent.
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/ 1 September 2006
Zambia has temporarily closed its main border crossing with Tanzania following a night of riots that left several people injured and property damaged, an official said on Friday. The riots were sparked off late on Thursday after word went round that a Tanzanian national had died in police custody in Zambia, said Edwin Sinyinza, a district commissioner in northern Zambia.
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/ 1 September 2006
Everton manager David Moyes is to sue his former protégé and England striker Wayne Rooney over comments made in the 20-year-old’s autobiography, his lawyer said on Friday. Rooney, who joined Manchester United in 2004 for a fee estimated at £25-million, made his first-team breakthrough under Moyes at Goodison Park as a teenager.